PGY-3 Resident Rotations

Unless otherwise specified, each rotation lasts for seven or eight weeks:

• Clinic: Bellevue
• Obstetrics: Bellevue
• Gynecology: Bellevue
• Gynecology: Woodhull (four weeks)
• Benign Gynecology: Tisch
• Gynecologic Oncology: Tisch (four weeks)
• Obstetrics/Gynecology (Nights): Bellevue
• Elective (four weeks)
• Vacation (four weeks)

During the third and fourth years of residency, attention is directed towards honing the skills learned during the first two years, and gaining increasingly greater responsibilities in patient management, always with direct faculty supervision.

The clinic rotation is a one-month block preceeding the Bellevue Gynecology rotation in which residents see and book their own patients for surgery. During the clinic rotation, the resident is responsible for evaluating a patients' appropriateness for surgery, counseling the patient about the risks, benefits and alternatives of procedures, and performance of a preoperative workup. During the accompanying Bellevue Gynecology rotation, the residents performs the operation with faculty instruction and supervision and follows the patient postoperatively both as an inpatient and for ambulatory visits.

The Woodhull gynecologic surgical rotation in North Brooklyn adds to the breadth and depth of the surgical experiences of the NYU chief and senior residents. The goal of this rotation is to increase the surgical volume while allowing for the residents to hone abdominal and operative laparoscopic skills, while gaining facility with vaginal surgery.

In addition, third-year residents are provided with a one-month elective block. This may be utilized in any approved specialty area of clinical training (i.e., the subspecialties, including primary care), as an away elective, or to perform research under faculty supervision.